"dependible" meaning in English

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Adjective

Forms: more dependible [comparative], most dependible [superlative]
Etymology: depend + -ible Etymology templates: {{suf|en|depend|-ible}} depend + -ible Head templates: {{en-adj}} dependible (comparative more dependible, superlative most dependible)
  1. Archaic spelling of dependable. Tags: alt-of, archaic Alternative form of: dependable
    Sense id: en-dependible-en-adj-zz5niLg1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ible

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          "ref": "1862, William Jackson Hooker, Species Filicum: Scolopendrium, page 212",
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          "ref": "1875, Charles Greville, The Greville Memoirs, page 215",
          "text": "[…] still there is scarcely a hope of their gaining enough to enable Peel to carry on the Government with such constant and dependible majorities as can alone render it efficacious and secure.",
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          "ref": "1883, Report on the Administration of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and the Penal Settlements of Port Blair and the Nicobars, for the Year 1882–1883, page 69",
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        {
          "ref": "1926, Musical Merchandise Combined for the Duration [with] The Music Trade Review, page 33",
          "text": "Furthermore, Rexcraft, Inc., is starting 1927, with a complete net work of dependible jobbers from Coast to Coast.",
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          "ref": "1966, Fleishour V. United States of America, page 39",
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